Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Wattpad's Payment and Ads Platforms team and build and maintain scalable payment services and a consolidated ads backend platform. You will design, build, and maintain functionality on a large-scale distributed system, build new product features in Go and PHP, and improve system reliability and performance. This role requires 3+ years of software development experience, proficiency in Go, experience with AWS, and a passion for solving complex problems. Wattpad offers a competitive salary, career development opportunities, comprehensive health benefits, RRSP contributions, generous vacation and parental leave, and more. The company is remote-friendly and encourages applications from diverse candidates.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a prior software development role
• You are skilled in Go
• You know PHP or are willing to work with it
• You have experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider like Azure or GCP)
• You enjoy building and maintaining complex back-end systems that operate 24/7 at high scale
• You write clean, readable code that communicates its intents and methods clearly to future engineers (but you can also deal with code that isn’t and doesn’t)
• You are comfortable in both static and dynamic languages and don’t mind switching between them
• You love learning and applying your knowledge in novel ways
• Nothing makes you happier than a hard problem solved well (with “just enough” documentation)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain functionality on a large scale distributed system serving millions of people per day
• Build new product features in Go and PHP
• Improve reliability and performance of core components and existing systems
• Configure and maintain the infrastructure that runs those systems
• Write unit and service tests for all your code
• Research and implement new technology to solve tomorrow’s scaling issues

Preferred Qualifications

• You have integration experience with 3rd party payment systems like Stripe, Square or equivalent services
• You’ve worked with Ads Platform tools or APIs like Kevel or Google Adsense for Platform (AFP)
• You have a knowledge of Docker
• You’ve used container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or ECS
• You have exposure to Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform & Ansible

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Career development; we believe in mentorship and supporting you to achieve your goals
• Health benefits, fully covered by us!
• RRSP Contributions
• Generous vacation and Parental Leave Top-up
• Corporate discount for gym membership for you and your family
• Beautiful offices in downtown Toronto and Halifax, with easy access to transit